National Affairs: Whose Policy?

For the first time since the campaign began, Candidate Tom Dewey was
directly challenged on two matters of political record. The challenger
was the New York Times's able reporter James B. Reston. The dispute
centered on the origins of the nation's bipartisan foreign policy and
the European Recovery Program.

"Great Objective." In a foreign-policy address in Louisville last week,
Dewey claimedas he had beforethat the bipartisan idea was all
his own. "That was the great objective," he said, "when I first proposed to
Secretary Hull during the election campaign four years ago that we have
cooperation between our two parties to...